Word: wolfgang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hisses and boos mingled with cheers as Richard Wagner's grandsons rang up the curtain last week on the sixth postwar season at Bayreuth. Reason for the excitement: Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner had finally got around to applying to Die Meistersinger the same stripped-down, dramatically lighted staging in which they have redraped all but one (Rienzi) of their Grandfather Richard's works...
...neutrinos (small, uncharged particles) in their calculations. Neutrinos are necessary: without them many nuclear equations would not balance, and the massive branches of nuclear theory might fall to the ground. But no known apparatus has ever detected neutrinos. They were reasoned into existence by Nobel Prizewinners Enrico Fermi and Wolfgang Pauli to fill a theoretical need, and the gnawing suspicion has long persisted that they do not exist. Last week from the Atomic Energy Commission came big news. Neutrinos do exist...
...other members of the committee were: Francis Keppel '38, dean of the School of Education; Donald Oenslager '23, noted stage designer and professor of Stage Design at Yale; Dean Charles H. Sawyer of the Yale School of Fine Arts; Professor Wolfgang Stechow of Oberlin; George Wald, professor of Biology; John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and S. Lane Faison, Jr., Executive Secretary of the Committee
...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was small, rachitic, poor and struggling. His music was grand, architecturally superb, rich and blissful. The contrast between Mozart the man and Mozart the musician never ceases to amaze. Says Bruno Walter, one of Mozart's great musical interpreters: "His personality has remained strangely remote to the world...
...Prague saw the three roisterers parading the tiny cobbled streets-huge, toothless Lorenzo, with his booming laugh; senile Casanova, with sparks of old fire in his eyes; between them, Wolfgang, trotting along in a vacuum of bliss and ideas, a quiet little man, looking up at each in turn to catch the last outrageous remark and cap it with some Salzburger dreckiger Witz (dirty joke) that made them pound his slight back and bellow with...